Auburn offer was what Vigor LB Deshaun Davis was waiting for all along (updated with video)

When Vigor High linebacker Deshaun Davis arrived at school on Wednesday, there was a phone call for him from Auburn support staff member (and former Vigor offensive coordinator) Brent Dearmon.

"He put coach (Gus) Malzahn on the phone and he told me he wanted to offer me a scholarship and wanted me to come play middle linebacker for him," Davis said. "I told him I was coming. I didn't waste any more time about that."

Davis, who became Auburn's fourth commitment in the 2014 class on Wednesday morning, is a three-star prospect according to

. He also had offers from LSU, Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida State, Clemson, Kentucky, Texas Tech and Northern Illinois. He'd visited Auburn twice this spring without getting an offer from the Tigers, but never gave up on landing one.

"I thought they were going to offer me there, but (Malzahn) told me he had to work out another situation," Davis said. "Coach (Dameyune) Craig told me if I wanted to come to Auburn to be patient. ... That's where I want to be."

The offer comes with another Auburn linebacker target, Carver-Montgomery's Shaun Dion Hamilton, set to announce his choice between the Tigers, Alabama and Tennessee today. But Davis said he doesn't think that was the situation to which Malzahn had referred.

"He told me right now they didn't know how many linebackers they were going to take," he said.

Davis said he is on track to qualify academically, but has not yet decided whether he will try to graduate early and go to the Plains as an early enrollee. Now that he knows where he's going, Davis said it's time to work on a couple of his friends -- Vigor teammate Justin Thornton, a four-star defensive end, and St. Paul's linebacker Tre Williams, a former park-ball teammate who is one of the top prospects in the state.

"I'm definitely going to stay in (Thornton's) ear and of course, me and Tre grew up together," Davis said. "It would be like old times."